- Network: Peacock
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 1, 2023
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Woliner’s aim isn’t to deliberately prank Goldman; instead, what the series represents is the televisual equivalent to Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. By engaging with Goldman, and helping him “tell his story,” Woliner, his collaborators, and even the audience are inevitably drawn into the experience; it’s one man’s tale, but by observing it, we’re all somehow a part of it.
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“Paul T. Goldman,” which premieres Sunday, may be difficult to describe adequately, but it’s an easy-to-watch six-parter that unfolds slyly and provocatively.
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As with Nathan Fielder’s work, it’s a funhouse of legitimate and illusory experiences and compulsions, with Goldman—sad, angry, pitiable and absurd—at its hazy center.
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In ways he realizes and others he definitely does not, Paul becomes a civilian Larry David of sorts, thrust into uncomfortable “Curb Your Enthusiasm”-style situations he brings on himself and doesn’t always know how to handle.
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The six-episode series starts as an imaginative twist on the overworked true crime genre, but it eventually devolves into a Threat Level Midnight-style endeavor that lands somewhere between enabling and exploitation.
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The net result is a show that’s as oddly watchable as it is hard to define. If only Quibi had lived to see it.